Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
If a scourge doth put to death suddenly, At the trial of the innocent He laugheth.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
Holman Bible
He mocks the despair of the innocent.
International Standard Version
If a calamity causes sudden death, he'll mock at the despair of the innocent.
A Conservative Version
If the scourge kills suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
American Standard Version
If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.
Amplified
“When [His] scourge kills suddenly,
He mocks at the despair of the innocent.
Bible in Basic English
If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.
Darby Translation
If the scourge kill suddenly, he mocketh at the trial of the innocent.
Julia Smith Translation
If the scourge shall fall suddenly, he will deride at the trial of the innocent
King James 2000
If the scourge slays suddenly, he will laugh at the plight of the innocent.
Lexham Expanded Bible
When the whip kills suddenly, he mocks at [the] despair of [the] innocent.
Modern King James verseion
If the whip kills suddenly, He will mock at the calamity of the innocent.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And though he slay suddenly with the scourge, yet will he laugh at the punishment of the innocent.
NET Bible
If a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks at the despair of the innocent.
New Heart English Bible
If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
The Emphasized Bible
If, a scourge, slay suddenly, at the despair of innocent ones, he mocketh.
Webster
If the scourge shall slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
World English Bible
If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
Themes
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 9:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad
22 It is the same thing, therefore I said, 'The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.' 23 If a scourge doth put to death suddenly, At the trial of the innocent He laugheth. 24 Earth hath been given Into the hand of the wicked one. The face of its judges he covereth, If not -- where, who is he?
Phrases
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:15
And now that I have come to speak unto the king my lord this word, it is because the people made me afraid, and thy maid-servant saith, Let me speak, I pray thee, unto the king; it may be the king doth do the word of his handmaid,
2 Samuel 14:17
and thy maid-servant saith, Let, I pray thee, the word of my lord the king be for ease; for as a messenger of God so is my lord the king, to understand the good and the evil; and Jehovah thy God is with thee.'
Job 1:13-19
And the day is, that his sons and his daughters are eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the first-born.
Job 2:7
And the Adversary goeth forth from the presence of Jehovah, and smiteth Job with a sore ulcer from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
Job 4:7
Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off?
Job 8:20
Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers.
Job 24:12
Because of enmity men do groan, And the soul of pierced ones doth cry, And God doth not give praise.
Psalm 44:22
Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.
Ezekiel 14:19-21
Or -- pestilence I send unto that land, and I have poured out My fury against it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast --
Ezekiel 21:13
Because it is a trier, And what if even the sceptre it is despising? It shall not be, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.
Hebrews 11:36-37
and others of mockings and scourgings did receive trial, and yet of bonds and imprisonment;